For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
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We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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